3 Trophys for the Best Shiraz, Best Red & Best Wine of Show Le Concours des Vins, and 4 Golds to date. This is the first time that Yarra Burn Shiraz has been entirely from the Pyrenees region, reflecting the magnificent red vintage in the region. 2003 was warm and dry but also very low-yielding, resulting in fruit with fantastic concentration of flavour. An honest, western districts Shiraz with warm RhĂ´ne-like qualities, offering earthy flavours of blackberry and plums, thoroughly distinguished, impeccably fine and tight.

Shiraz is a varietal with which Taltarni has excelled from the very start, no real mystery as it's grown to some of Victoria's best purpose built vineyards. By applying traditional winemaking with modern Australian viticulture, T-Series can create a deeply coloured and generously flavoured, soundly structured wine. Just perfect with steak or old world style meat Ragu, its vibrant assortment of juicy, cool ripened plum and spiced fruit flavours, are framed by a length of supportive, amicable tannins and supple, integrated oak.

A stylish wine crafted with the holy triumvirate of sparkling grape varietals, the T Series is for everyday life, after all T is for time out! Sourced from cool climate Pyrenees and Macedon vineyards, T Series offers an array of citrus and stone fruit Chardonnay aromas, followed up by enticing red berry Pinot Noir and Meunier flavours. Soft and elegant in style with subtle yeast aromas, the finish is crisp, vibrant and refreshing.

There are few marques, better placed than Taltarni to create the ultimate indulgence in sparkling burgundy. Shiraz is crushed into small open top fermenters for a week of vinification, hand plunged, regularly pumped over and gently pressed into French oak barriques for a term of age. Its fragrant blackcurrant mousse precedes an edifying spice and chocolate palate, muscular Pyrenees tannins and a sheath of dusky oak balance the indulgent sweetness of fruit. A moreish purple wine to match with fruit dressed poultry, cherry duckling or the traditional festive pud.

A Victorian flagship effort in the uniquely Australian experience of icon Shiraz Cabernet wines. Taltarni blends modern Australian winemaking with traditional French vinification practices, encapsulating the philosophy of forming a nexus between new and old world methodologies. Taltarni Reserve is an accord of two noble red varietals which have brought Taltarni international renown. Grown to superior Pyrenees vineyards, Cabernet lays down the solid structure and contributes profound berry perfumes, Shiraz brings flesh and adds piquant aromatic spice.

Characterized by its controlled power, elegance and finesse, a very special Pyrenees wine which redefines the great Cabernet virtues of stature, structure and length. The inaugural release claimed Gold and Best Wine ahead of two timeless Bordeaux icons, Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Cos d'Estournel. Prior vintages have claimed the hotly contested Decanter World Wine Awards Best Bordeaux Varietal over ÂŁ10. A mighty Pyrenees Cabernet Sauvignon, driven by a masculine weight of fruit, supported by a framework of stylish French oak.

The quality of Shiraz grown to parched vineyards in Victoria's rugged western districts, has been well known throughout the world of wine since the days of gold rush and early settlement. Taltarni have since established an enviable reputation for vintages of powerfully structured, statuesque red wines, fully exploiting the soft spoken majesty and graceful intensity of Pyrenees Shiraz comes naturally. Released in limited quantities, a mouth coating Shiraz to savour alongside grilled meats and roast game, or costly shards of pungent, esoteric cheese.

From fruit grown to the original farmstead which was broken up to give birth to Taltarni. When the Australian wine press made mention of the quality of red wines from this boutique Pyrenees winery, the secret was out, the phones rang hot and the Summerfield cellars were emptied in two days. Summerfield's editions are all hand made in small batches to ensure consistency and quality in every bottle. Plums and cherries, spices with chocolate, fragrant mocha oak frames the palate, this is what Summerfield old vine Shiraz is all about, it only gets better from here.

Predominantly from the Seppelt property in the Grampians, a third of the fruit is picked off good vineyards at Bendigo, a further component is sourced from splendid Heathcote sites. An assemblage of Shiraz grown to somewhat different terroirs across the finer viticultural precincts of Victoria, the cooler climes of Grampians contributing a richness of fruit to balance the earthy tannins of warmer aspects to the north. An elegant, peppery wine, with expressions of berries, plum and soft tannins, mellowed by oak and resolving on a long, savoury finish.

Outstanding Langtons Classification. A historic wine, the stuff of which legends are made, Victoria's answer to Grange. St Peters is the signature Grampians Shiraz by the House of Seppelt, crafted from mature vines fruit, hand picked off a canon of distinguished and superior old parcels, the backbone from St Peter, Imperial and Great Western Vineyards, established during the 1930s. Harmony defines the integration between layers of complexity and tightness of structure, a concentration of black plum and fragrant spice persists over a framework of tightly knit oak.

From the parched and wizzened old vines on the austere and distinguished St Peters vineyard in Victoria's dry western grazing lands. The Seppelt St Peters Grampians Shiraz is a legendary wine from the House of Seppelt, combining the fruit of precious low yielding old vines with one and a half centuries of experience. St Peters embodies the unique style of Grampians Shiraz and demonstrates the ability of these old vineyards to yield extraordinary wines with outstanding palate structure, immense weight of fruit and refined, elegant tannins.

The House of Seppelt's rarest and most iconic wine, only ever made in great vintages, returns after a hiatus of ten years. Originally formulated by Edmond Mazure in the gay nineties of the 19th Century, Seppelt Sparkling Show Shiraz is the only wine in Australia that's made precisely the same way ever since. An epic and enduring canon of the winemaker's art which has stood the test of time, aged under the historic Seppelt underground drives, to evolve the extraordinary richness which defines the exquisiteness of Great Western Sparkling Shiraz.

Since 1851, The House of Seppelt has built a reputation for exceptional western districts Sparkling Shiraz. Silverband is composed of various select tirage wine components with an average vintage age of six years. These parcels were initially trial lots, carefully selected by the winemakers for their ability to age gracefully and develop intense varietal and regional characters. Over time, these batches were identified and blended to craft this unique and delightful Grampians Sparkling wine, sealed under crown cap. Peak drinking right now.

This regional Shiraz is sourced from unique viticultural meso-climates that were formed from the gradual weathering of the Grampians over millions of years. These quality vineyards were identified by the winemakers on the basis of good Shiraz fruit, the fermented juice was aged in separate batches. From these batches wines that expressed high quality, regional fruit characters were selected to create a Shiraz that displays purity of fruit, elegance and great aging capacity, classic characteristics of the Grampians region.

The flagship sparkling from the House of Seppelt, Salinger is made to authentic Methode traditionelle. One of Australia's premier sparklers, an elegant and refined effervescent wine, with the inclusion of aged reserves for added complexity. Importantly, Salinger is assembled from the very best Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meuniere available to Seppelt. Treated to the most meticulous vinification, followed by a lengthy spell of ageing under The Drives, Seppelt Great Western's famous underground cellars.

Seppelt have had more experience with this uniquely Australian style of wine than anyone else in the world. Although there are no precise records, it appears that Seppelt wre experimenting with sparkling red wines as far back as the 1890s. Seppelt Original is constructed to true Method Traditionelle. An assemblage of intensely flavoured Shiraz wines, barrel matured and aged on yeast lees, creating a complex Cuvee with great depth of flavour and length of fruit, long dusty oak, mouthfilling berry plum flavours and a resplendent, lively effervescence.

Originally crafted by the legendary Colin Preece and labelled as Burgundy, Chalambar has become one of the most highly sought Seppelt releases each year, due to its consistency, quality and value. The House of Seppelt are custodians to one of Australia's most auspicious cellars, constructed by miners who took up viticulture when the Victorian gold ruch was in decline. Their efforts have left a legacy which provides the ultimate environment for ageing stocks of Seppelt Chalambar, a fully engaging Shiraz of layered fruit and disciplined tannins.

The legacy of early Victorian vineyards is maintained through a curious canon of place names on Seppelt labels, Chalambar is a tribute to unemployed miners who turned to viticulture as the gold rush came to an end. Deriving its name from the picturesque mount near Great Western, Chalambar is a true regional icon that's been playing to packed houses since 1951. An immediately approachable Shiraz with the enigmatic capacity to age gracefully, flavours of spicy dark berry fruits and chocolate are supported by fine tannins and gentle cedary oak.

A warming, western districts Shiraz with strong regional expression and concentration of fruit on the palate. Hamish Seabrook comes from a long line of wine merchants, most notably W.J Seabrook & Son. He has made the most of his family's contacts in the industry to isolate and secure parcels of the finest Pyrenees Shiraz, grown to good vineyards, husbanded by the most devoted local vignerons. Crafted to an old fashioned claret style, with cedary oak to the fore, followed by an engaging length of spiced cherry and savoury chocolate plum characters.

Excellent Langtons Classification. Named after winemaker Neill Robb's wife, Sally's Paddock is handcrafted from a single unirrigated vineyard, entirely estate grown, vinified and bottled, universally regarded as one of Australia's first growths. The unique combination of soil, cool to mild climatic and traditionally managed vines produce low yield grapes of high intensity, colour and flavour, achieving the most compelling wines in the classic Pyrenees style. Langtons listed ever since the catalogue's inception, Sally's Paddock is a long lived and enduring national icon wine.

Hand picked Shiraz from the vineyards surrounding Hundred Tree Homestead on Sally's Hill, including parcels from the famous Sally's Paddock. An exceptional Shiraz wine reflecting the wonderfully idiosyncratic flavours of Sally's Hill fruit and unique style of Redbank. Made in small batches, wild yeast fermented, hand punched and basket pressed, Sally's Hill truly expresses the potential of a pure varietal wine from fruit grown to unirrigated vines planted in 1973. The quintessential High Pyrenees Shiraz style, full and delicious, round and distinctively soft.

Excellent Langtons Classification. A long and extended growing season means that the Mount Langhi property is one of the last blocks to be harvested in Victoria. Also of significance is that only the best berries are carefully picked off the precious old vines. The famous Langhi Ghiran is fermented in traditional open, shallow, concrete tanks, before ageing in a selection of the finest oak barrels. It is the strong synergy between a unique microclime, fastidious viticulture and proficiency at winemaking that can achieve the paragon which is Langi Ghiran.

Excellent Langtons Classification. Crafted from fruit grown to the renowned Old Block on the Mount Langi Ghiran property, established by the Fratin family in 1963, the vines are nearing a half century of age. A deeply flavoured, compelling Shiraz from the parched aspects of Victoria's Grampian ranges, it stands as one of Australia's most esteemed and stately wines.

Mount Langi make Victoria's most profound Shiraz, the confluence of parched and inhospitable terrains, exhilerated by the sobering Grampians winds, coax grapevines into concentrating flavours and intensifying the natural fruit sugars as berries slowly ripen. The wines of Mount Langi are renowned for their redolent bramble spice perfumes and generously weighted palates, as supported by such long lived, stately tannins. A luxurious effervescent Shiraz, extravagantly aged two years in own bottle and fashioned to a clean, ebullient contemporary styling.

A pure Grampians Shiraz, much of the fruit from vines planted to the eastern granite slopes of Mount Langi Ghiran. A significant whole bunch maceration component is central to the style, building on the perfumes and delicate aromatics. Showing terrific weight of fruit flavours, complex spice and balanced tannins. With an excellent balance of finesse and depth, pointing the way for Cliff Edge Shiraz in terms of intensity and structure. Deep and dynamic, fashioned from parcels of the most splendid Victorian Shiraz, a more powerful rendering than it's local siblings.

Increasingly, Mount Langi are reaping the harvest of some sensational old rootstock, sown decades ago. These cossetted parcels of vine may be challenging to manage but they yield the finest Shiraz in the greater Grampians region. The pick of these younger, albeit fully mature blocks represent a significant inclusion in Cliff Edge Shiraz, delivering the requisite intensity of flavour, concentration and finesse, when assembled around a backbone of Mount Langi Ghiran's most precious old vines fruit.

Riesling grapes grown to the higher altitudes of slower ripening latitudes, form distinctive fruit characters and the wonderfully fragrant esters which have established the varietal as favourite amongst the world's great winemakers. The big secret at Mount Langi is that they retain access to some of the oldest Riesling vines in Australia, planted to craggy heights and wind swept plateaus in the Grampians. A generously flavoured, fully aromatic Riesling wine, endowed with viscosity and a measure of mineral, uncannily akin to her noble old world siblings.

The Mount Langi property was recognized as ideal for the production of full bodied wines over a century ago. Planted to white wine grapes in the 1990s, it is now home to some of the most eloquent examples of Pinot Gris in Australia. A soundly structured wine of juicy bonbon flavours and fragrantly spiced florals, supported by a supple hint of oak. Mount Langi vineyard's spectacular aspects form a unique amphitheatre, where the cool Grampian climes ripen Pinot Gris grapes fully, to achieve optimal fruit characters and exemplary varietal complexity.

A delicious by product of Trevor Mast's quest to perfect the ultimate Grampians Shiraz, built to be forward drinking and approachable. Billi Billi is vinified from local grower's fruit, selections of estate grown Shiraz and bush vine grapes, alongside parcels imported from fine vineyards in Bendigo and Swan Hill. With a focus on fruit intensity over cellaring and complexity, Billi Billi is fashioned with the drinker in mind. A plushly textured Shiraz, expressing fully the well defined Grampians style, making Billi Billi an excellent introduction to the icons of Mount Langi Ghiran.

Pinot Gris vines were first planted at Mount Langi in the early 1990s. With altitudes and climes not dissimilar to the grape's original home in Alsace along the Valley Rhine, Grampians grown Pinot Gris is brimming with the baked pear and cool ripened lychee characters, kernel aromaticness and textural richness which make white Pinot wines so charming and persuasive. A match to bitey cheese and the freshest seafood, Mount Langi drinks magnificently alongside pork with apple dressing.

A conspicuous over achiever, Halls Gap Vineyard has been source to some of the most memorable vintages Seppelt, Penfold and Mount Langi Ghiran. Established 1969 to a propitious eastern facing slope at 260 metres above the sea, Halls Gap is all about the monumental nature of Grampians Shiraz. Treated to a traditional course of open vat ferments, hand plungings and extended term of eighteen months maturation, Fallen Giants articulates the imposing structure and fruit saturation which defines Grampians Shiraz, opaque, succulent and piquantly spiced.

One of Victoria's most distinguished and prolific vineyards, Halls Gap delivered decades of splendid harvests to Seppelt and Penfold, before being retained by the illustrious Mount Langi Ghiran. The inhospitable, rocky soils produce stately Rieslings of sound structure and the most pristine fruit characters. A single block of fully mature vines at Halls Gap yields a meagre crop of extraordinary Riesling grapes, the parched berries are ripened to perfection by the clear skies and frigid climes, forming an indulgence of profound esters and intense flavours.

Fallen Giants is a reference to local folklore, a canon of indigenous myths about how the Grampians were formed by colossal birds as they struggled for primacy. The auspicious vineyard at Halls Gap contains a superior block of old Cabernet vines which yield less than a tonne and a half per acre. Wrought through the full tradition of old world winemaking techniques, a magnificent construct of Cabernet Sauvignon with imposing ebony fruit characters and dauntless, epic tannins, treat your Fallen Giants to a brew of ox cheek and kipflers, trotters and truffled red wine Jus.

Since 1892 the Great Western wineworks have been home to our nation's most enduring sparkling wine. Great Western has established an enviable reputation for its universal appeal, consistency of quality and style. Components of exotic grape varietals, including the torrid Tarrango, the affable Colombard, fruity Grenache and the very French Chenin Blanc, have been harmoniously assembled into an immensely satisfying Cuvee, a wine of beautifully integrated flavours, alluring bouquets and exquisite length.

A sparkling Brut of approachability and finesse, slightly drier than it's sibling Imperial Reserve, called upon at every opportunity, as aperitif for every occasion or accompaniement to all good cuisine. Sparkling winemaking at Great Western dates back to the 1860s, when unemployed miners found work, driving kilometres of tunnels into decomposed granite soils, to be used as cellars for the Best family's venture. Today, the strictly maintained temperatures of these ancient cellars are essential to the maturation of Great Western Brut.

A voluminous and multi dimensional wine, decorated by a plummage of impressive accolades from prestigious competitions, including Australian Small Winemakers Show, Le Concours des Vins and Winestate of Year. The decadant fusion of effervescence and Shiraz, redolent with spiced plums and turkish delight perfumes, the palate is brimming with a generosity of flavour, bright berries and bramble fruits characters, an elegant and fulfilling wine that engages the senses while offering great richness and immeasurable length.

After years of self management, the ancient Garden Gully vines have been nursed back to health, for harvests of the most exemplary fruit. Exacting regimens of pruning and the close husbanding of vines were an act of faith, the task was completed successfully and the ancient plantings were restored to their former glory. The old block closest to the cellar door, so true to enduring local folklore, yields harvests of world class Shiraz. Vintage 2006 claimed Judges Trophy and Best Wine Victorian Wine Challenge.

Garden Gully is steeped in early viticultural history, the ancient vines bear testament to its place in local folklore. As a Riesling, Garden Gully represents a magnificently poised palate of defined varietal flavours, as influenced by the brisk climes and parched terroirs of the Victorian Grampians. Tiny yields of very small bunches and long walks along the challenging terrains demand an extra effort from the pickers, the Garden Gully winemaking team however are always very pleased with the incedible quality of fruit.

Dalwhinnie know that great Pinot Noir can only come from a healthy, well pruned vine which has the proper balance of fruit to foliage for even ripening. The bunches must be disease free, compact in composition and have good exposure to sunlight. Dalwhinnie is fortunate to have planted just such a site.

From a single precious block, planted to an inhospitable reef outcrop, dynamited for levelling and planted to the eminent Concongella clone of Shiraz in 1995. The dry and bony soils yield meagre harvests of the most amazing concentration, parched little berries bursting with flavour and lined with velvet tannins. Grampians Shiraz of the highest order and most distinguished peerage, its amazingly rich perfumes and bridled elegance, black fruit characters throughout, black cherries, black raspberries and black roses, salacious yet refined.

Full bodied, single block Shiraz of controlled power and amazing grace, crafted from a small parcel of precious fruit, picked off a rare clone, transplanted to Moonambel from an ancient Barossa vineyard in 1997. An opaque, masculine wine treated to an extended term of age in an extravagant choice of medium toast Allier French oak, its virile bouquet of musky jube aromas and seasoned sandalwood precedes a voluminious palate of dark berries, bramble and cassis, a wine of intense concentration supported by the splendour of masculine, savoury tannins.

Excellent Langtons Classification. The Dalwhinnie vineyard is situated on the 37th parallel, within a unique amphitheatre which has its own unique mesoclime. The poor fragile soils left over from alluvial mining projects in the early 1800s are some of the hardest and hungriest anywhere. The first Shiraz vines, planted to the Grand Piano Block, were rootlings from the eminent Sunraysia Nurseries at Mildura. The site is totally frost free and harvests achieve complete physiological ripeness nine out of ten years, all vintage releases must surpass expectations.

Excellent Langtons Classification. A more masculine style of Shiraz, a wine of immense power and complexity, vinified from parcels of small, gnarled berries with massive concentration of fruit characters, picked off the most enduring vines grown to the parched western districts of country Victoria. The structure and complexity is impressive, exhibiting the taste and nose of Grand Cru Hermitage. An appealing freshness to the wine brings it forward, Dalwhinnie ages magnificently but is a profound experience to savour immediately upon release.

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